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Monday, September 8, 2014

#31DC2014 - Day 8: Metallic Nails aka Metallic Marble

Good morning lovelies! So, we are going into the 8th day of the
#31DC2014 and I must admit, I’m having more fun than I thought I would.
It is quite tiring at times but the pay-off is really worth it. Also,
seeing some of the other ladies work is really inspiring. You freaking
go girls!

Day 8: Metallic NailsI wasn’t too excited about this prompt. Not only was I very low on
inspiration but I don’t think I own any true metallic nail polish. So I
went with what was metallic to me and played around a bit. While I was
playing around with my polishes though, I saw that some of my metallics
did what a lot of metallics do...streaki-ness galore! And hence, I realized I could use this to my advantage. So this is how my metallic
marble was born.

I layed down a very thick coat of Nubar Erratic Purple on a plastic
baggie. I then went in with a small dotting tool and just swirled the
polish around in a random motion until I was happy with the “pattern”
that it created and left it for about 2 hours to dry properly. When it
was dry, I added another thick coat of clear polish over the marble just
to give it more of a foundation for when I remove it. When everything
had dried properly, I lifted the polish off the baggie with a tweezer
and cut it into different sections similar to the size of my nails. Then
I layed a very thin layer of clear nail polish over each of my nails
and let it sit for about 20 seconds to get tacky and placed my little
marble decals over the tacky base. I then just flattened everything down
nicely to make sure there were no air bubbles underneath, cleaned up
around my nails and layed down another thin coat of fast drying topcoat,
making sure I wrap my tips.

This mani came out pretty cool in my opinion! It kind of looks like
liquid molten metal, doesn’t it?...Which then just made me wish that I
rather used a silver metallic polish because then it would look like
liquid Adamantium! AAAAAAAGH! An unintentional X-men mani! Why didn’t
you Thea?? Whyyyyyyyyyy??